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...Class races take place at 11 o'clock Saturday of next week...
...congratulate the students of the Northwestern College on their Professor (of Rhetoric?). He says: "You do not digest sufficiently the literary food you take into your stomach, and it consequently remains raw, and retains its original nature." It must be very disagreeable...
...crew of new men, such as the Sophomores have been obliged to put forward as representing the rowing power of their class, a second crew is an absolute necessity. Without it, if the present six (which is now in very good trim) loses a man, they will have to take into the boat another, perfectly raw and untrained, and it will be not only his rowing which will injure the crew, but the disheartening knowledge that their progress has been stopped...
...various other matters; but we can only hope to perfect our system gradually." The trouble which the managers have been in during the past year, with regard to the finances of the association, shows that the system has certainly not yet been "perfected." It is now proposed to take (in the fall) some of the "gradual" steps to perfection; and while they are being discussed, I should like to bring one or two facts to the notice of the managers. The pleasure of having a reading-room was so great that when it was first opened, the managers apparently forgot...
...found other attractions to recommend them. The Harvard Magazine was very heavy and very literary. As the present papers took warning from it and avoided that extreme, the result has been that they have met with the most perfect success. If the reading-room would in the same way take warning from "history," there is no doubt that, in proportion as it afforded liberty and comfort to its frequenters, it would increase both their number and their interest...